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War and victory -- some lasting images

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY: RIA NOVOSTI ARCHIVES

A Red Army soldier hoisting the Soviet flag over the Reichstag (German Parliament) in Berlin in May 1945.

At the Yalta Summit in February 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

A Red Army soldier before the Reichstag, May 1945.

Nazi prisoners of war in Moscow, July 1944.

In the midst of the remains of their house, Ukraine, 1943.

Maria Dolina, Hero of the Soviet Union and Deputy Squadron Commander of 125th guards aviation female regiment.

Kiev, Ukraine, during the War in June 1941.

The first Ukrainian front, 1944.

Red Army soldiers who attacked the Reichstag, May 1945.

A soldier-liberator, Ukraine, 1943.

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